Track: Organizational Systems and Technology
Minitrack: Enterprise System Integration: Issues and Answers

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are becoming mature infrastructure in many organizations. Many firms are looking beyond the internal business processes of their company and extending their information systems to include systems in other organizations. Linking these systems together is the objective of the emerging field of Enterprise Integration through technologies such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and more recently Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This mini-track seeks to explore issues, both academic and organizational, surrounding the integration of Enterprise Systems and linking ERP systems to other systems via EAI or SOA. Topics of special interest include the following:

• Implementation issues and concerns

• Support (on-going and initial start-up) issues

• Training and retention of qualified staff

• Upgrade and versioning issues

• Extending the ERP system beyond the organizational boundaries

• EAI/SOA implementation benefits, barriers and costs, methodologies, standards and issues

• Tailoring ERP to meet diverse corporate needs.

• Benefit and cost management of integrated enterprise systems

• Worlds best practices for integrated business

• Measuring ERP, SOA and EAI performance and evaluating costs and benefits

• Impact of Academic Alliances in ERP/EAI technologies on students and businesses that hire these students
  
   

Minitrack Co-chairs:

Gail Corbitt (Primary Contact)
California State University Chico
AMIS Dept. 0011 College of Business Chico,
CA 95929-0011, USA
Phone: 530-898-6463
Email: gcorbitt@csuchico.edu

Marinos Themistocleous
Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems
150 Androutsou Stret, 18534
Piraeus, Greece
Phone: +30-210-4142723
Email: mthemist@unipi.gr